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Lineal consanguinity
Lineal consanguinity, that relationship which subsists between persons descended in a right line, as grandfather, father, son, grandson. (1) Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom
Semidiameter
Half of a diameter a right line or the length of a right line drawn from the center of a circle a sphere or other … Half of a diameter a right line or the length of a right line drawn from the center of a circle a sphere or other curved figure to its circumference or periphery
Gavelkind
all sonnes alike,' which, until then, was generally received, Co. Litt., 140 a. Gavelkind land descended in the right line to all the sons equally, being an exception to the law of primogeniture. In default of sons, it
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Tarwad
is the name given to the joint family consisting of males and females, all descended in the female line from a common ancestress, Kalyani v. Narayanan, AIR 1980 SC 1173 (1177): (1980) Supp SCC 298: (1980) 2 … from a common ancestress. Mayne compares a tarwad to a family corporation. Every member of tarwad has equal rights in the property by reason of his or her birth in the tarwad, M.K. Balakrishna Menon v. Assistant
Protestant
2), in which, by way of making further provision (in addition to that made by the Bill of Rights in 1688) 'for the succession of the Crown in the Protestant line,' the Crown was settled, in default
Marumakkattayam law
the family constituting a Marumakkattayam tarward are descended through a common ancestries in the female line with equal rights in the property of the family. Under the customary Marumakkattayam law no partition of the family estate may
Right
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Perpendicular
or vertical pointing to the zenith at right angles to the plane of the horizon extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth
Rightness
Straightness as the rightness of a line
Boustrophedon
An ancient mode of writing in alternate directions one line from left to right and the next from right to left as fields are plowed as in early Greek and Hittite
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